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A writer who went to jail for nearly six months to protect her sources and the First Amendment, reporters who exposed a cancer center’s fatal wrongdoing and a pair of promising young journalists were honored in May at The Newspaper Guild-CWA’s first Freedom Award Fund Banquet.

One CWA family suffered a double tragety in the Sept. 11 terror attacks in New York City. Tina Grazioso, a former US Airways employee and member of CWA Local 1171 in Syracuse, N.Y., lost both her husband and brother-in-law at the World Trade Center, reported local President Rose Mary Nickerson.

CWA leaders in Oregon were key to an effort to reshape and revitalize the state’s labor movement at a May conference in Portland, where more than 200 delegates from 45 unions and labor councils approved an historic “New Alliance” for labor, the AFL-CIO reported.

A Glimpse at Life in a Tenement House

Chances are you live in a house with a yard or an apartment building with places to play, and you probably have your own bedroom, or a room you share with one brother or sister.

Tentative agreement with Cincinnati Bell provides for settlement of key issues.